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News: Performance / Tour

Aruan Ortiz Trio: Free Concert at Mason Gross Performing Arts Center

January 22, 2010

New Brunswick, NJ -- Acclaimed pianist Aruan Ortiz brings his hypnotic blend of avant-garde jazz and world music to Nicholas Music Center on Thursday, February 11. The Aruan Ortiz Trio features the Grammy Award-nominated Ignacio Berroa on drums and Ed Howard on bass. Their appearance inaugurates Rutgers University's Common Purposes Concert Series. “You know there's all ...

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News: Interview

Interview: Gunther Schuller (Part 4)

January 22, 2010

Gunther Schuller has composed more than 160 original classical and jazz-classical works. In 1994, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Of Reminiscences and Recollections, a memorial composition for his wife, Marjorie Black. Gunther also is the winner of many other awards, including Columbia University's William Schuman Award for lifetime achievement in American music composition. And then ...

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News: Festival

Is That Jazz? - Complete Schedule

January 22, 2010

All performances at: The Chapel Performance Space (4639 Sunnyside Avenue North, Seattle - SW corner of 50th and Sunnyside in Wallingford). Festival Website: www.isthatjazz.org Friday, January 22 - Sunship and Sun Ra Tribute Band SUNSHIP Sunship reunites Brian Heaney, one of Seattles most creative guitarists, with the amazing New York saxophonist Michael ...

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News: Recording

CDs of Note... (Revised Release Date)

January 22, 2010

The David Leonhardt Trio, Bach to the Blues (Big Bang) If you love jazz and classical--and have ears that are open improvisation on some of the great classical works, this one's for you. Pianist David Leonhardt, bassist Matthew Parrish and drummer Alvester Garnett have done an excellent job of building the musical bridge here. The ...

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News: Award / Grant

Overdue Honor at Grammys

January 22, 2010

Amid all of the deserved, but lingering, attention that will be heaped upon the Michael Jackson legacy at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards on January 31, there will be some attention paid to JAZZ. Trumpeter Clark Terry, 89, will receive the Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award. Other lifetime honorees this year are Leonard Cohen, Bobby Darin, ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Rodrigo Y Gabriela Spring Dates

January 22, 2010

RODRIGO Y GABRIELA ANNOUNCE SPRING 2010 TOUR DATES The explosive Mexican guitar-shredding Rodrigo y Gabriela have announced their Spring 2010 tour of North America. The dates begin February 28 at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC, run through March, and culminate with a special performance at New York's historic Radio City Music Hall on April 29. ...

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News: Festival

Jazz: The Ultimate in Undead

January 22, 2010

Among my collection of articles musing on the death or waning days of jazz, my favorite (so far) appeared in the spring 1997 issue of the Wilson Quarterly. Embellished with an engraving of Wynton Marsalis's face pasted atop a lace-cuffed frock coat and cocooned in a Mozart wig, the article, “Has Jazz Gone Classical?" hits the ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones | 12.19 | CO

January 22, 2010

Words by: Cassie Pence | Images by: Zach Mahone Bela Fleck and the Flecktones :: 12.19.09 :: Vilar Performing Arts Center :: Beaver Creek, CO Bela Fleck and the Flecktones :: 12.19 :: Colorado During Bela Fleck and the Flecktones' second set at the ...

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News: Radio

Vijay Iyer on KMOX Friday Morning

January 22, 2010

Pianist Vijay Iyer is scheduled to be interviewed on “The Charlie Brennan Show" on KMOX (1120 AM) at approximately 10:30 a.m. tomorrow morning, Friday, January 22. Iyer is in St. Louis through Saturday to perform at Jazz at the Bistro.Brennan's program airs from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. weekdays; you can listen online here. ...

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News: Music Industry

Notes from the Net: Miles in Montreal; the Persistence of "Audiophoolery"; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews, and More

January 22, 2010

Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest:* In this week's Miles Davis-related news, the museum exhibit in Paris devoted to the ...